Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.74

c8.74

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 192 | Sītā | A river in the Uttarahimavanta region. It was deep and unnavigable (*duratikama*)—because, says the Commentator, the water was so delicate that even a peacock's feather will not float but sink to the bottom—surrounded by the golden mountains which blazed like a fire of reeds. It | VI, 100-G. 424 ; 125-G. 557. | It is of course the Sītā of the Purāṇas: e.g., *Viṣṇu P.*, Bk. II, ch. II; *Mārk. P.*, 56-6-7 and of the *Jaina Uttarādhyayana Sūtra*, XI, 28, which says "it is the best of the rivers with its dark waters." Some take it to be the modern Jaxartes or the Sarik-kul river which rises in the plateau south of Jssyk-kul 1908, p. 322. Even the *Jātaka*s know of two settlements: one with Aritthapura as the capital thus locating itself in the Shorkot region of Punjab, and the other with Jetuttara as the capital thus identifying itself with the region round Nagari, 11 miles north of Chitor: See *C. A. G. I.*, p. 669; *P. H. A. I.*, p. 170. |